Los Pepes

Los Pepes, meaning People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar (Perseguidas por Pablo Escobar), was a Colombian paramilitary group formed in late 1992 to hunt down and kill drug lord Pablo Escobar and destroy his Medellin Cartel. The group was founded by former Medellin associates Don Berna and Judy Moncada, AUC paramilitary leaders Carlos Castano Gil and Fidel Castano Gil, and by the Cali Cartel, and the group used weapons supplied to the AUC by the United States' CIA to hunt down Escobar's sicarios. Their first victim was his minion Velasco, and they set up gruesome displays of dead sicarios on Christmas Day of 1992, tying dead and dismembered sicarios to walls with Christmas light cords and sending messages to Escobar. The group would take out several of Escobar's men and would fight until Escobar was killed by Search Bloc in 1993, after which the death squad disbanded.